Week 2: Digital History and Public History

This week serves as an introduction to the concept of Digital Humanities/History and its relation to Public History.

Reading

• Gregory Crane, “Greco-Roman Studies in a Digital Age,” Daedalus 145, no. 2 (2016): 127–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/24711585.
• Romein et al, “State of the Field: Digital History,” History 105, (2020): 291–312, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12969.
• Julian Chambliss, Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists (Michigan State University Libraries, 2021), Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Public Digital Humanities. Podcast link
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1.

Assignment

• Look at Humanities Commons, explore the documentation, and sign up for an account if you are interested.
• Explore the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, read at least one of the articles in one of the volumes, and be prepared to discuss the article in class. Make sure to look over the Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 volume even if you pick an article from elsewhere.

Activities

• Discussion of Digital Humanities and Public History.
• Discussion of Romein et al, “State of the Field: Digital History”
• Discussion and presentation of articles from Debates in the Digital Humanities series.
• How to prepare for next week.